Oglethorpe County Jail

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The Oglethorpe County Jail is located at 115 Buddy Faust Road in Lexington, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Oglethorpe County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about anything you might want to know about the Oglethorpe County Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and tips that you’ll need to make the process a lot easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask them, and any comments or feedback that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation is welcome.

Oglethorpe County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Oglethorpe County Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find information for anybody processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information faster if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Oglethorpe County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Oglethorpe County Jail includes each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you must answer a number of questions, such as your full name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to use the phone in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. This process takes from 10 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster you can post bail, the faster you will be freed. Also, it might depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must determine the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Oglethorpe County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Oglethorpe County Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will go into the visitation log for the requesting inmate. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Oglethorpe County Jail change often, so you should call the official Oglethorpe County Jail at (706) 743-8101 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Oglethorpe County Jail you must be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No mobile phones at Oglethorpe County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Oglethorpe County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Oglethorpe County Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Oglethorpe County Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Oglethorpe County Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the Oglethorpe County jail website or you can call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file that includes a court docket and all of the documents filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at the Oglethorpe County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DWI or DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail at the Oglethorpe County Jail are always changing, so it would be best to check the Oglethorpe County Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Oglethorpe County Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Oglethorpe County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (706) 743-8101 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Oglethorpe County Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

All phone calls from the Oglethorpe County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone privileges may be limited or forbidden completely.

The Oglethorpe County Jail phone number is: (706) 743-8101

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls are shared with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Oglethorpe County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three things will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Oglethorpe County Jail, click the link below.

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